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Mac News: Mapgate Is Over. Apple Won. Customers Won. Google, Not So Much In a single succinct, sincere, and brilliant note, Tim Cook has put Apple’s Maps fiasco to bed. It was a beautiful thing. He offered a clear assessment of the problem (“we fell short”), and took full responsibility for it. He put forward a heartfelt apology (“we are extremely sorry”), and gave customers an easy, pretty-good short-term solution…

Mac News: Amazing iPhone 6 Feature Uncovered A new Apple patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday illustrates the company’s take on powering portable electronic devices with an electromagnetic induction system, or “shake to charge.” Electromagnetic induction, or the production of electric current in a conductive element as it moves through a magnetic field, has been leveraged to generate power for a number of so-called…

Mac News: Apple Looks to Flexible Displays for Unique Functionality Apple’s invention relates to flexible displays that may include one or more flexible layers. A display cover such as a cover glass layer may be mounted over a flexible display. The flexible display may be OLED having a flexible substrate formed from one or more sheets of polymer. The flexible display may include a touch sensor layer having an array…

Mac News: Apple developing carbon fibre MacBook or iPad? Apple could be building a carbon fibre MacBook, iPad or iPhone 5 – and reports say it’s gone so far as to actually order carbon fibre parts. According to Japanese blog Macotakara, Apple has “commissioned a product sample” made of carbon fibre from an unnamed Japanese supplier. Exactly what the product is remains a mystery, however. Read full story => c|net…

Mac News: Lightning Port: Clever Design, Hard to Produce Apple’s new Lightning port, currently shipping on the iPhone 5, utilizes the dynamic assignment of the pins to enable reversible use, or the ability to be plugged in regardless of which side is facing up. While this is an extremely useful feature – easier to plug in, lasts longer, less prone to pins breaking – it does have one major downside:…